The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, "Colds" (Fevers), Etc. / How Sickness Originates, and How to Prevent It. A Health Manual for the People.

by C. E. Page

INDEX.

Advantages of Deep Breathing, [84], [111] Albuminuria (Bright’s Disease), [116] Animal Food, Injurious Effects of, [51], [60], [61] Animal Food Unnecessary, [50], [158] Stimulating, [160] Acute Stage in the Cure of Chronic Disease, [222] Appetite, Tempting the, Mischievous, [66], [157], [262], [267] Appetite and Insanity, [141], [144] Apoplexy, [149] Air-Baths, [166], [171], [172] and Dyspepsia, [168] Apples and Summer-Complaint, [193] Bad Blood, [180] Bacillus Theory, The, of Consumption, [80] Blood, Bad, [180] Bathing, [90], [98], [166], [171], [172] Bed, A word About the, [102] Bowels, Consumption of the, [81] Forced Movement of the, Unhygienic, [110] Baths, Sun, [175] Air, [166], [171], [172] Injurious Forms of, [172] Biliousness, [152] and “Rich” Food, [153] Bright’s Disease (Albuminuria), [116] Symptoms of, [125], [127], [130] Breathing, Deep, [84], [111], [137] Careless, [137] Open-mouth, [101] Difficult, how Relieved, [101] Beef-tea Fallacy, The, [60], [61], [254] Brain, Pumping away the Effete Matters from the, [137] Bran (Wheat Hulls) Under the Microscope, [187] Brain Workers and Stimulation, [252] Bears, Honey-loving, [263] Continence, Influence of Diet in the Matter of, [265] Continence for Consumption, Essentiality of, [105] Credulity and Ignorance, [22] Cold Air not necessarily Pure, [240] Colds, [35], [36], [37], [41], [45], [171], [218] Influence of Diet on, [40], [218] Natural Cure of, [41] the Name a Misnomer, [45] Franklin’s Idea of, [171] Absurdity of, [40], [41], [42] Clothing, Day, [120] Night, [103] Constipation, [65], [107], [248] at Child-birth, [107] Consumption, [28] Curability of, [29] Congestion of the Lungs, How Produced, [99] Congestion of the Lungs from Indigestion, [99] Cheerfulness, Importance of, [77], [98] Carpets and Health, [97] Consumption, Out-door Life Essential to the Cure of, [30], [48] Consumption, Dyspepsia the Parent of, [54] Consumption from Fatty Degeneration, [79] Constipation, when “Closed Bowels” are not, strictly speaking, [65], [107] Constipation from Deficient Diet, [112] Chilliness, How to Remove, [109] Controlling the Symptoms, Folly of the Theory of, [112] Cures, Some Natural, [75], [85], [114], [168], [175] Climate, A Cold, Influence on the Kidneys, [116], [117] Croup as a Symptom in Albuminuria, [128] Catarrh, [153] Specific Treatment for, Danger of, [130] Catarrh, Suppressed and Diabetes, [130] Caffeine allied to Quinine, [244] Coffee, [243] and Indigestion, [251] and Insomnia, [139] and Health, [255] a Diuretic, [251] Cleanliness and Insomnia, [138] Cooking Vegetables, some Hints about, [177] Cooking, Injurious Effects of, [207], 210

Cost of Living, [206] Cure, The Raw-Food, [217] Chronic Diseases usually the Result of Chronic Provocation, [147] Child-birth, Constipation at, Normal, [107] Cistern Water, Stagnant, How to Renovate, [212] Christmas Dinner, A “Natural”, [227] Change of Air at Home, [237] Cream, Unwholesomeness of, [231] Caffeine, Artificial, How Manufactured, [248] Coffee and Courage, [258] and Tea more Injurious than Beer, [261] Coffee and Alcohol, Physiological Effects of, Similar, [259] Conclusion, [270] Cramming the Sick, Mania for, [59], [66], [76], [146] Diet, The Natural, [207] Various Hints about, [88], [153] Abstemious, for Consumptives, [89], [90], [92] Diet, Prevailing, Unwholesome, [227] Excessive, Promotes Consumption, How, [81], [82], [83] Diet, Influence of, on Health, [48], [59], [66], [81], [88], [99], [112], [113], [122], [126] Diet, A Physiological, [197] and Virtue, [265] Diabetes from Suppressed Nasal Catarrh, [130] Diabetes, Treatment for, [130] Death, Sudden, Accounted for, [31], [32], [149] Death Penalty, The, Nature’s Commutation of, [147], [148] Disease, The Temper, [39] Hunger a, [39] Providence and, [8], [9], [17] Prevalence of, [9], [14] Exciting Causes of, [11], [12] Predisposing Causes of, [11], [12], [35], [40] Diseases Arising from Renal Disorder, [130] Dyspepsia, [168] Doctors, A Prescription for, [95] Dry Diet, Advantages of, [93] Degeneration, Fatty, [78], [79], [80], [148], [150] Digestive and Muscular Capacity Compared, [68], [230] Dysentery, A Hint Concerning, [113] Diathesis, The “Disease”, [132] Unimportance of the Question of, [132] Dyspepsia and Dreams, [133] Diphtheria a Phase of Albuminuria, [128] The Class of Persons most Subject to, [128] Diuretics, The Best of All, [124] Diuretic, Coffee a, [251] Diseases, The True Interpretation of, [133] Dyspeptics are Recruited, How, [157] Diarrhœa, Chronic, Cured with Watermelons, [192] Driven Cow’s Milk Unnatural, [212] Digestion, Primary, in the Mouth, [93] Eating Alone Sometimes Useful, [176] Eating at Bed-time for Sleeplessness, [144] Error, A Common, [113] Exercise, Passive, [113] Exercise, The True Problem About, [70] Exercise for Consumptives, [69] Exercise, [68], [89], [90], [109], [119] Expectorants, Natural, [89], [91], [105] Exercise, Lack of, How to Counteract, [195] Exercise After Eating, [201], [202] Fruit vs. Fish, Flesh, Fowl & Co. in Hot Weather, [191] Fruit in Winter, [211] Food Poisonous Unless Digested, [246] Food and Virtue, [53], [265] Fæces, Source of the, [111] Foul Air, Poor Economy to Save, [87] Food, The Natural, of Man, [48], [72], [207] Food, “Rich,” Injurious, [88], [153] Hot or Cold?, [99] Fasts, Professional, Value of, [74] Fasting, Notable Instances of, [72], [73], [140], [168] Fasting, Constipation Normal during, [107], [112] Fasting Cure, The, [42], [43], [145], [153], [168] Food as a Purgative, [113], [114], [194] Fatty Degeneration, [79], [80], [148], [150] Obesity not a Requisite of, [79] Fever, [153] Food, Raw, and Health, [17], [223], [224] Flies and Health, [97] Fruit, [94], [191], [194] Food, The Quantity of, Relation of Climate to, [117] Fruit vs. Physic, [194] Fossil Bodies, [24], [183], [246] Livers, [179] Fasting and Insanity, [140] Flesh-food Fallacy, The, [158] and Bread Compared, [159] Often Diseased, [160] Question, Moral Aspect of the, [163] Flesh-food and Heredity, [164] Unfairness of the Advocates of, [160] Franklin’s Idea of “Colds”, [171] Gastric Juice, Proportion of, Secreted, 93

Gout, [131], [209] Gouty Habit, The, a Symptom of Bright’s Disease, [131] Guiteau’s Appetite, [144] Grape-Cure, The, [214] Guano and Coffee, [248] Gnawing Stomach a Disease, [39] Hogs, Experiments on, [82] Hay-fever, [153], [209] Health Easily Secured, [18] Robust, how Promoted, [85], [96] A Duty, [19], [27], [35] Relation of, to Morals, [7], [54], [265], [270] Health the Safeguard against Contagion, [10], [11], [12] Heart Disease, [149] How to Keep Well, [96] Hints and Aphorisms, [154] House-cleaning in the “Living Temple”, [155] Hulls, Wheat, Under the Microscope, [187] Hunger Disease, The, [201] Hot Air may still be Pure, [240] Heart, Palpitation of the, from Coffee-drinking, [244] Hot Water as a Medicine, [98], [100] Herb Drinks and Female Weakness, [251] Insomnia and Air-bath, [138] a Symptom only, [134] Ignorance and Credulity, [22], [23] Insomnia and Coffee, [137] Insomnia, [133] Indigestion a Phase of Rheumatism, [145] Indigestion a Cause of Congestion of the Lungs, [99] Indigestion from Excess in Diet, [93] Intemperance, How Propagated, [55], [56], [261] Insanity and Fasting, [140] Insane? Who Are and Who are Not, [134] Insane, The, Usually Ravenous Eaters, [141] Infants are “Loved” to Death, How, [16] Japanese, Muscular, how fed, [161] Kidney Disease Unknown at the Arctics, [116], [117] Koch’s Theory of Consumption, [80] Kitchen-Curse, The, [233] Laziness a Disease, [34], [58] Liver Complaint, [168] Livers, “Fossil”, [179] Liver, Mercury “to Clear Out” the, [180] Lungs, Congestion of, from Indigestion, [99] Long Faces to the Rear, in Sickness, [103] Long Life, How Promoted, [85] Milk not a Natural Food for Adults, [153] Morality and Digestion, [157] Malaria, [236], [241], [247] Model Meal, A, [226] Meals, Number of, for Health, [48], [62], [72], [197] Mercury, to “Clear Out” the Liver, [180] Milk Fever from Excessive Diet, [150] Muscular Japanese, How the, are fed, [161] Milk and Biliousness, [152] Milk, [65], [152], [212] Mastication, Importance of Thorough, [92], [93] Moral Torpor a Disease, [34] Medicine, Hot Water as a, [98], [100] Why the Nostrum-makers Thrive, [25], [26] Natural Diet, The, [207] Nature Defeated by “Treatment”, [258] Nightmare from Using Tobacco, [251] Neuralgia, A Hint Concerning, [153] Nervous Prostration, A Hint Concerning, [253] Normal Constipation, [107] Night-air Superstition, The, [48] Nutrition the Grand Factor in Prevention or Cure, [58] Nausea and Hot Water, [100] Open Windows for Consumptives, [89] for Sewer Gas, [236] Obesity, Natural Cure of, [148] One-meal System, The, [62], [197] Organs, How all the Vital, become Degenerated, [181] Passions, Influence of Diet upon the, [265] Passive Exercise for Consumptives, [99] Constipation, [109], [113] Piles, How, are Produced, [111] Premature Deaths, [16], [230] Pneumonia, [102] Poison, “One’s Meat Another’s”, [43] How Food becomes, [61], [246] Providence and Disease, [8], [9], [17] Practice, the Reform, Obstacles to, [66], [95] Physiology a Part of Theology, [34] Physic, Good Health the Best, [108] Bad Effects of, [107] Fruit the Best, [194] Pain, the Office of, Friendly, [134] Pure Air, Popular Ignorance Concerning, [237] Pure Air, How to Ensure it, [239] Physical Independence, [255] Prejudice, Popular, against Reform, 234

Purgative, Tobacco as a, [250] Purgative, Food as a, [113], [114], [194] Quinine and Caffeine Closely Allied, [244] Roman Fever, The Cause of, [236] Race Horses are Injured, How, [198] Reform, A Rational, [234] Reformed Practice, Obstacles to the, [22], [66], [95] Rest after Meals, [200], [202] Regimen, The Traditional, [121] Rheumatism, [145] A Phase of Indigestion, [145] Chronic, Treatment for, [147] Rich Food a Cause of Biliousness, [153] Supportive Treatment, The, [258] Salisbury Theory, The, of Consumption, [81] Saline Starvation, [177] Scorbutic (Scurvy) Condition Predisposes to Zymotic Diseases, [10] Sedentary Life, Effects of a, [78], [84] Scrofula, Something About, [175], [194], [229], [231] Sickness, The Absurdity of, [9] Scrofulous Humors, How Manufactured, [231] Self-cure, Mrs. E.’s Story of her own, [85] Sewer-gas, [236] Straining at Stool Injurious, [110] Stimulation of the Kidneys Unnatural, [126] Skin, The Adaptability of the Skin to Sudden Changes of Temperature, [35] Sympathetic Nervous System, The, [31], [46] Starvation, Eating Sometimes Hastens, [72] Starvation, Saline, [177] Starvation Dyspeptic, [58], [66] Stomach, The, the most abused of all the Organs, [46] Sugar, Artificial, Injurious, [78] Stomach Baths, [100] Signs of Disordered, [57] Stomachs, Sensitive, and Wheat Hulls, [189] Sleeping Alone, [106] Sleep, Efforts to Induce, Self-defeating, [135], [136] Sun-Baths, [171] Sunday Headaches, Cause of the, [200] Symptoms, Controlling The (!), [112] Stimulation from Diphtheritic Poison, [258] Stimulation, The true Theory about, [257] Sleeplessness Cured by Late Eating, [144] an Analogue of Pain, [135] Sunstrokes, Cause of, [196] Sleep, Regular Hours for, Necessary, [135] Summer Tortures, How avoided, [195] Traditional Regimen, The, [121] Treatment, The “Supportive”, [258] Tobacco and Insomnia, [137] as a Purgative, [250] Treating in Eating, [156] Teeth, One Cause of Poor, [207], [249] Typhoid Subject, A, [15] Telegraph System, Wonders of the Human, [31], [46] Table, A Well-furnished, [79] Toothache, [153] Thirst, How to Prevent, [98], [100] Tongue, The Story Told by the, [63] Unnaturalness of the Prevailing Diet, [227], [265], [266] Variety in Food not desirable, [92], [213] Virtue, Influence of Diet on, [53], [265] Valance, Poor Thomas, [125] Vegetarian Diet and Quantity, [161] Vegetarians, Some Noted, [51], [161] Vegetarianism and Endurance, [162] Vegetable Food, [48], [51], [52], [72], [158], [161] Vegetables Spoiled by Cooking, How, [177] Vinegar Yeast in the Blood, a Cause of Consumption, [81], [82] Ventilation, [47], [48], [97], [236], [238], [239] Vickers, The Case of Mr., [75] Watermelons, A Stale Joke about, [191] for Bowel Troubles, [192] Water as a Medicine, [98], [100], [113], [190] Weakness from Hot Drinks, [251] White Flour, Concerning, [49] Worrying, Effects of, [85] Waves of Disease!, [9] Wheat-meal vs. “Entire Flour”, [184]

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